Cork flood prevention plan: Talking time is running out

Venice and Cork, as we have been reminded this month, are cities facing a common threat. Last week’s high tide inundation left 80% of Venice under water; by sheer good luck, this week, Cork city centre was spared devastating deluges.

Work on the Venetian solution — its MOSE flood defence programme — began in 2003 and remains unfinished, thanks in part to incompetent embezzlement and incompetent management.